Science is about coming up with theories and testing to see if they match reality. That is how we have advanced so far in knowledge the last 300 years. We humans. We animals. For unless you are a plant or virus, you ARE an animal.
And Christians have believed in using reason since when Jesus walked the earth. It is a pity to see some here reject it as possible.
Improvement of Man. - If the stock of domesticated animals can be improved, it is not unfair to ask if the health and vigor of future generations of men and women on the earth might not be improved by applying to them the laws of selection.Eugenics. - When people marry there are certain things that the individual as well as the race should demand. The most important of these is freedom from germ diseases which might be handed down to the offspring. Tuberculosis, that dread white plague which is still responsible for almost one seventh of all deaths, epilepsy, and feeble-mindedness are handicaps which it is not only unfair but criminal to hand down to posterity. The science is of being well born is called eugenics.
- Hunter’s Civic Biology (the textbook at the centre of the Scopes Trial)